Direct Me NYC: NYPL helps you find New Yorkers in the 1940 Census. How to Create an Index Table Like a Pro with Microsoft Word. An index gives readers a way to find important words easily in our document, but creating an index by hand is very tedious and time consuming.
Thankfully you can automatically create an index table in Word. Image by Ifijay The common approach to create an index table in Word is to manually mark each word that we wish to index, but the other alternative is to use a concordance document to automatically index our master document, which is what we will cover in today’s article. Generating the Index Let’s start by creating a two column table in our concordance file. Making an Index from a long Word file (book) How to Create a Book Index. How to Index Books. How to Write an Index for a Book. Novice Notes - Process of Indexing. Outline of this Process page: Reading and marking, organization and planning strategies, editing, spell-checking, hidden text in the index, paper books vs online books, saving to disk, editing processes, peer reviews, etc.
(Note: this is not a lesson; it is the merest of outlines). From ISO 999, "Information and Documentation--Guidelines for the Content, Organization and Presentation of Indexes": So - what is the process for achieving this? Different types of books require slightly different processes, and indexers invent their own styles and systems, but this is an overview of what you can expect. Costs - BWI.